Can You Identify An American?

[+ Avalon]

I had a friend, a WASP - now deceased - who was in the US military in the 1950s and was stationed in Paris. He told me that when he went on vacation to a beach that people could identify him as an American. He was just wearing a swimsuit and didn't have to say a word.

[P Gren]

Often I can. There are numerous draft dodgers and other Americans that have lived in Canada a long time. And I am often correct when I ask someone "are you originally from the USA" because there is something. I don't know what it is, its not knowledge maybe its about attitude. I'm not saying this either negative or positive, just something.

Edited June 27, 2018 by P Gren

[+ José Soplanucas]

You can identify SOME Americans, same with any nationalities. Those closer to national stereotypes. You may feel very perceptive, but you just do not know how many you are missing. Just like with homosexuals.

[+ friendofsheila]

When I was overseas, the Americans were the ones who actually had butts.

[+ Avalon]

When I was overseas, the Americans were the ones who actually had butts.

 

lol

[+ tassojunior]

The most fun way is checking for circumcision. How you tell in porn.

[+ Avalon]

The most fun way is checking for circumcision. How you tell in porn.

 

Good point!

[+ tassojunior]

When I was overseas, the Americans were the ones who actually had butts.

 

Hmmm. I think that's reverse logic. Pretty sure Brits are the only nationality that doesn't have butts. Genetic or from the tea.

How to tell a Brit.

[P Gren]

even though latbear's post was just below yours - and it appears he, therefore, was replying to you - I don't think he was doing that

I got that. The stork population and the Swedish birth rate both fell at exactly the same rate - doesn't mean there's a correlation. I deleted my post but it lives on in @latbear4blk 's post

Edited June 27, 2018 by P Gren

[Rudynate]

It used to be easy to distinguish Americans from Europeans at a glance. Movement, mannerisms, dress were all distinctive. Not so much anymore.

[cany10011]

Usually the loudest ones

[Rudynate]

I had a friend, a WASP - now deceased - who was in the US military in the 1950s and was stationed in Paris. He told me that when he went on vacation to a beach that people could identify him as an American. He was just wearing a swimsuit and didn't have to say a word.

 

 

I spent three years in Europe in the 70s in the military. You could spot an American a half-block away just from the way he walked.

[Rudynate]

I had a friend, a WASP - now deceased - who was in the US military in the 1950s and was stationed in Paris. He told me that when he went on vacation to a beach that people could identify him as an American. He was just wearing a swimsuit and didn't have to say a word.

 

 

Another difference was build. It has all changed now, everybody looks the same. But back then, European men tended to be more slender than Americans and they often didn't have broad shoulders and v-shaped torsos. We used to say that a man had a "European body." This was so even if a guy was athletic and in good shape.

[+ José Soplanucas]

I got that. The stork population and the Swedish birth rate both fell at exactly the same rate - doesn't mean there's a correlation. I deleted my post but it lives on in @latbear4blk 's post

 

It is now gone. I would not like to leave any trace of your one moment that did not match the Canadian national stereotype of being the coolest people in the North American subcontinent.

[+ Charlie]

Fifty years ago I could almost always tell a European from an American because of a number of differences in style, but now I can't see any noticeable differences in clothing or grooming.

[Rudynate]

Fifty years ago I could almost always tell a European from an American because of a number of differences in style, but now I can't see any noticeable differences in clothing or grooming.

 

Right. Europeans and Americans really dressed differently back then. In the late 60s, we hosted an exchange student from Sweden. When he first got here, I was sitting in his room chatting with him as he was unpacking and I thought, "Wow, what weird clothes he has."

 

Even more recently, in the mid-90s, I worked at a global company with headquarters in Silicon Valley. Quite a few of the engineers and executives were European, and I noticed that they often wore color combinations that you would never see on an American. It would be nice to report that they were interesting and unexpected, but mostly, they just looked weird.

 

Even now, you see haircuts on Europeans that you wouldn't see on Americans.

[cany10011]

I used to work in an office complex next to the german company that makes MontBlanc pens/watches.. All the sales men are stunning and smoking hot-looking europeans.

[Rudynate]

I used to work in an office complex next to the german company that makes MontBlanc pens/watches.. All the sales men are stunning and smoking hot-looking europeans.

 

There isn't much not to like in European men.

[+ José Soplanucas]

What a mystery and a joy that we all are so different. My dick does not react at national or continental origin.

[LookingAround]

Americans are the ones with big sneakers and a t shirt.

[+ Avalon]

There isn't much not to like in European men.

 

Especially the Czechs.

[BaronArtz]

(I am European)

 

American women - for sure. Bad hairstyles or hair coloring jobs. Nasally, high-pitched voices. Generally, behave rudely. And I am sorry to say, except for very few, they are just fat.

[MaxMuscle9x6]

As an american who spent sometime stationed in London, i was almost always picked out as the American. I could def differentiate between a European and an American.

[gallahadesquire]

Funny. Until I open my mouth, whilst in the UK, I'm always taken as a native.

[Epigonos]

American men have always loved their baseball caps and baggy swimwear. Shoes also used to be a dead give away.